On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:24 AM, mick johnson <mickjohnsonrpt at gmail.com>wrote: > Alright. The story: > > Senior composition recital. This was the guy who has been doing prepared > piano stuff here for the past few years, and this is (was) his piano that he > and I had been experimenting with. > Sounds like he totally unprepared this one. > He originally wanted to finish the show by smashing it with a sledge > hammer when I remembered that a good buddy of mine from college is the > marketing director for a local building supply warehouse. Every year as part > of a promo they challenge the Kearney Fire Dept. to a race to see who can > cut an automobile in half faster – the firemen with the jaws of life, or the > DeWalt team with cordless reciprocating saws. My friend called the regional > rep for DeWalt and it was game on. > > Being the final piece of the recital, it began with a professor from a > neighboring college improvising on a theme. The composer came out and began > loosening the strings as it was being played. At the halfway point I came on > and started cutting the strings to clear a path for the saws. > > The pianist left and the saws came on , accompanied by the new music > ensemble behind the curtain. > > Cutting the car in half takes about 2-3 minutes. After 30 minutes, 8 > battery changes and 16 blades, there was still a little bit of plate holding > the piano together. It was another 20 or so blows with the sledge that > finally brought her down, much to the relief of the patient crowd. > Yuck, what the heck? People actually pay for this stuff? I'd rather stay home and watch reality TV. (We don't have TV and I *hate* reality shows.) -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101211/0749ccc4/attachment.htm>
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